manyxcxi

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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Yeah, but that's a problem even without an internet connected opener. For example, my left most garage door opener happened to get onto the same frequency/code cycle as the neighbor across the cul de sac's door opener about a
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I think you're dead wrong on IoT being fad but agree on the popular consumer examples you've provided. There are some gems out there now, but most of the rest are worthless without the internet. These products will wind up getting
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I was going to say something similar. I often use USB power supplies that came from old phones/laptops for my various little robot/gizmo projects. I do this with the (naive) assumption that If I'm Apple/Dell/Samsung
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Oh yeah, it'd make Rube Goldberg proud. At the time it was actually my very first piece of home automation. It was built before the zero, Edison, or other dual system devices came around, and I got frustrated with timing issues trying
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
You've basically just given a link for 90% of the HA in my house. I don't have the SmartThings hub, I have the Wink hub (for better or worse- I'd give it a B+). I slowly replaced most of the switches in my house room by room
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Alexa has a lot to do with it, my wife doesn't use the app for our home automation hub, and when I'm home I don't either. Pulling my phone out, unlocking it, firing it up, getting to the right section. Even with everything op
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
You obviously don't have one, and if you do, you've horribly wasted your money. Even on day one it launched with more use than that. I can set or check my thermostat, control any light or group of lights in my house, get an Uber t
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
>> I don't see why any of those desires should be in conflict with my progressive ideals > This is precisely the origin of the problem. And, WHY, exactly is this the origin of the problem? The poster said they'd be willin
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Thank you for ungarbling.
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Typically the problems we've had with pathing on Windows is when the module we're trying to use doesn't handle Windows paths as inputs, the other way around hardly (if ever) caused us a problem. I am pretty sure it even resol
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
There was an article (maybe came across HN) not that long ago that details the history of MS-DOS and Windows, and they made note of how originally MS-DOS was going to use \ as a file separator, and instead of C:\ it would've just been
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
That's what we did and found it to work great for us. Occasionally we still had some that were just too long and had to hack about them.
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
There are command line tools/minimal libraries that allow you to compile C/C++ provided in the depths of Microsoft's webs that can/will let you do this without a full on VS install. Typically good for setting up a build
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Ah, node-gyp. I completely forgot about all the f@$king problems that caused us.
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
At my last company we built an internal build/deployment tool and dashboard. Because we serviced a lot of clients and a number of them were .NET projects, our tool had to be deployed to Windows. There were a couple of devs who did thei
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
This is really great work, thank you!
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
It both makes sense and is counter-intuitive to me at the same time. I see why you did it, and I see why some people would like it that way- however when I hit the back button I'm trying to leave the page, so it feels like I'm bei
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Not intended, but the first two quotes are directly from the author of the book in the podcast I was referring, not my impression of the book she wrote on the subject. Because of her discussion, I'm now interested in reading in the boo
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
The last few times we've done it we used Zurb Foundation for Emails[0], built with Grunt, and sent using Mailgun. There's still a lot of manual work, but we've created a lot of code template/mixins that get put together
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
It makes you wonder if the sound bite cycle and instant feedback loop with the general public encourages this behavior, even more so than politicians just being more dumb. You'd think that with the educational institutions most of thes
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I recently stumbled on a podcast I found very interesting that relates: The Art of Manliness #189: The Classical Education You Never Had [0] They had an author (Susan Bauer) on discussing topics from her book The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
> some people are just manifestly stupid and/or incompetent Some are. Even more are just plain incorrect for all the many reasons human beings are incorrect. At least in the states, we've spent the last 30 years making people b
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Having bounced around from Zend Framework, ZF2, Yii, Code Igniter, and Symfony until landing on Laravel pretty early on- I can say it's the only reason I still do some projects in PHP at all. Frankly, writing web apps in Laravel is dam
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I've had the opposite reaction to Yii/Laravel. Coming from a heavy .NET/Java background that utilizes similar architecture patterns, it was quite easy to wrap my head around. When you get used to the IoC/Service Provider
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I got early access to pre-order (can't remember why) at $99 and almost didn't do it. I'm SO glad I did. It gets used all day every day. I grab the last two eggs and say "Alexa, add eggs to the grocery list", hands a
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I want to be clear that I'm not brushing off the incidences or saying they're in any way acceptable. It's more of a thought exercise asking why these guys think the behavior is acceptable. Why are they doing it in the first p
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I wonder, and this me genuinely wondering without an assumed answer, if some of the issues we're seeing with gender inequality in 'traditionally male dominated' lines of study and work might be due to the type of people drawn
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
I find Louis CK's stories and jokes on parenting hilarious, but also quite comforting. I'm a sarcastic asshole, I always have been, and I've often thought (and in mostly private discussions with close parent friends of mine s
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
Spelling before coffee has curious outputs. Proofreading before coffee has no outputs.
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by manyxcxi 11y ago
It's funny, not that I think he's right, but that my 3 year old often says please to Alexa... I find it amazing how nonchalantly my kids (3 & 1.5) interact with devices that are mind blowing and magical to me today, even thoug

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